Many people who want to get started on making money
online have been seeking advice on how to make money online. This is a complete
hands-on guide to making money online. Lots of people, including myself, have
made money using the following strategies.
However, I need to state here that
making money online is not as easy and straightforward as many people think. It
requires sacrifice, discipline, persistence and a natural knack for excellence.
If you hope to make a living online, you must first accept the fact that making
enough money online is possible, but it requires patience. I have seen many
people try to make money online, but somehow end up getting disappointed and
discouraged. When I first started out, it took me a little more than a year
before I started seeing positive results.
But before I proceed, I must throw in a few warnings.....
My ultimate goal is to get to the $100,000 monthly income, which I believe I will get to very soon. Many people are already doing it. Why not me? Why not you? Shall we take this challenge together? If you want your daily income to look something like this that is still possible. You just have to move away from your comfort zone and plunge into the sea even if the only tool you have is blind faith. |
Having sounded those few warnings, we can now proceed to
more serious stuff. In this guide, I am
straight away going to tell you about all the kinds of work you can do online
to make money. I am going to be as candid with you as possible. I am not going
to give you bull crap and meander with facts.
If there is something I don’t know I will simple refer you
to a link for more information. I have been making money online long enough to
know what works and what doesn’t. I have been successful in many of them, but I
have also been fried dry in many more.
I don’t want you to make the mistakes I
made. I want you to walk straight into success. If you want to quit you 9-5 job
and start making money online full-time, I wish you the best of luck. If you
just want to make money online part-time, I still wish you the best of luck.
The only thing I request of you is to thank me later if you find this
information useful.
Freelance
Working as a freelance is a popular way of making money
online. You can work as a writer, a program or as an internet marketer either
through portals like Upwork.com, Freelancer.com, Freelance.com, GetACoder.com
and FreelanceCareers.com, among others.
The number of people joining freelance bandwagon continues
to increase each year. According to Financial
Times, freelancing is enjoying an impressive growth of 12% with popular
freelance broker sites like upwork.com enjoying consistent growth in terms of
number of new members and number of jobs posted.
The good news I have to tell you is that freelance work is
a happy job. According to freelance industry report, 90% of freelancers are
happier now than they were before going solo. 77% of freelancers are optimistic
about their future prospects.
With these kinds of statistics, no one should tell you
that freelancing is a bad thing; it is actually a wonderful opportunity for you
to become your own boss and build a successful freelancing career.
Unfortunately, many a newbie don’t know where to begin. Here is how to go about
it.
1. Choose your craft
Just about everything can be outsourced these days. From
writing articles to writing codes; from internet marketing to virtual assistance,
anything and everything can be outsourced these days and that is where you can
make money.
Therefore, there are obviously many things you can do to
make money as a freelancer. However, I must warn you that the competition is
enormous. For instance, when you join sites like freelancer.com or upwork.com
as a freelance writer, you will find yourself competing against hundreds of
other freelancers for a single job.
The clients often select the best candidate among the lot.
That means you have to be really good at what you do. So choosing the skills
that you know you are an expert at is the first thing to do as a freelancer.
However, do not be paralyzed by a preconception that you
are not good at a particular skill. If you have the desire and hunger to learn
that skill, you will become a pro. No one is born being an expert blogger or a
programmer or a marketer. We all learn these things over time.
When I started out as a freelance writer, I must admit I
was not very good. I received awful feedback from enraged clients and did very
low-paying jobs. However I resolved not to get discouraged. I resolved that I
would make continuous learning part of my daily routine. Today, I write for
high-end clients for an upward of $50 per article. It is pays to be patient in
the freelance world.
2. Create a Brand
I always tell freelancers that they are a brand in
themselves. Brands are not a preserve of big companies. As a freelancer, you
need to create a strong brand that sets you apart from the competition. Your
brand is your identity.
You can establish your brand through a blog, website, and
social media account or by maintaining an impressive feedback score if you work
through freelance broker sites like Upwork.
Having said that, try to narrow your area of expertise to
just one specific industry to maximize your. For instance, if you are a website
designer, you might choose to focus on ecommerce sites only.
This form of laser
focus specialization makes you attractive to prospective clients who are
looking for that particular service. Coming across as a jack of all trades can
be do more harm than good.
3. Build a Portfolio and Source Testimonials
Overtime, as you complete more orders, you establish a
trail that prospective clients can look at when making a decision. A freelancer
with average skills but with high feedback score and great testimonials becomes
more successful than a skillful freelancer with low ratings.
Several things
contribute to your feedback score and ratings:
- You quality of work
- How you communication with clients
- How you price your services
- Willingness to do revisions/changes
- Friendliness/customer service
- Your skills and expertise on the subject matter
- How well you implement instructions etc
- How reliable you are
In short, just do your best to provide an
exceptional service.
4. Keep Pitching
Whether you are working on a project or not, keep looking
for clients. Unless you have a stable client base, you should keep pitching to
ensure that you have a stable supply of work.
Affiliate marketing/blogging
Affiliate marketing is another area where you can make a
living off. Affiliate marketing simply involves selling other people’s products
and retaining commission. There are so many ways you can set up your affiliate
business:
You can blog about products you love and recommend them.
I can recommend you read these articles to get a better
idea
You can advertise the products directly using PPC, Facebook
ads, and BuySellAds. I must warn that spamming social media accounts is not the
best way to go about it.
….end of part one
I would like to end there for today. Treat this as an introductory
part. Next week, I will go into the steak of making money online. We will look
at the more unconventionally but lucrative methods of making money online. Until
then, have a good one!
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